Sam Shepard Quotes
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Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.